William Гауф lived incomplete twenty five years, but also this small term had him, forever to enter the name in history of world literature. The offered edition was entered by fairy-tales the "Imaginary prince" and "Adventures of Саида", belonging to the best standards of work of writer.Fairy-tales are adapted on the method of Ilya Frank : provided with literal translation into Russian language and necessary lexico-grammatical comment (without simplifications of text of original). The unicity of method consists in that memorizing of words and expressions takes place due to their repetition, without an overlearning and necessity to use a dictionary. In addition, a reader gets used to logic of German, begins to "feel" him.A manual assists the effective mastering of language, can serve as adding to the on-line tutorial.For the wide circle of persons studying German and немецкоязычных countries interested in a culture.